"Richard P. Koett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was under the impression that SYN scans would be faster because they > don't complete the handshake
That's what I thought too. > I am just going by what shows in the NessusWX scan status window. > "ps" doesn't even show nmap running, just multiple instances of nessusd. OK, then it is the internal plugin. > You are probably right, it may just be showing the name of the plugin > as "tcp connect() scan" even though it's doing a SYN scan. It *is* doing a TCP connect scan. nmap would run a SYN scan. There are two different plugin. Just select nmap, it will be quicker. BTW: http://michel.arboi.free.fr/UKUSA/secu/nessus_slow_scan.html -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public keys: http://michel.arboi.free.fr/pubkey.txt http://michel.arboi.free.fr/ http://arboi.da.ru/ FAQNOPI de fr.comp.securite : http://faqnopi.da.ru/ - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body.
